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A Revolution, not a Recalibration (That's What we Want)

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  A Revolution, not a Recalibration (That's What we Want) The pack of wolves that devoured Gaza are trying to lull us to sleep, but we must be adamant: institutions and norms that have betrayed humanity must not be allowed to survive the Gaza Holocaust Alon Mizrahi I am not, and never have been, a man of institutions and establishments. The combination of architecture and authority has always given me an actual fear of death; whenever I faced such a combination, since my first day in school, I had to run away or engage very lightly, always with an eye on the nearest exit. When I wrote my first book (dedicated to the subject of freedom) in the politically useless language of Hebrew, much of it was about the danger establishments posed to personal, philosophical, and political liberty. Granted, I grew up and spent my life in the deeply conflicted and now notoriously deranged Israel, where establishments are actually tools of merciless colonization, but anti-establishmentarianism is n...

Something's rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark

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  Something's rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark Greenland, often dismissed as an administrative nuisance for Denmark, is now coveted by the American empire, Silicon Valley utopians, and MAGA diehards. Nearly three-quarters of Greenland is covered by inland ice. Denmark rarely makes the headlines in the United States. But in late August, its foreign minister  summoned  the top US diplomat for a very undiplomatic conversation. Denmark’s national broadcaster, DR,  had just reported  that at least three American citizens linked to Donald Trump were covertly operating in Greenland, quietly trying to recruit locals into a separatist movement to drive a wedge between Copenhagen and Greenland, which operates as an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. For a NATO ally to accuse Washington of subversion is no small thing.  The White House’s response  — “we think the Danes need to calm down” — only served to underscore how far the relationship has sh...